“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.”
― Cupid and Psyche and Other Tales from the Golden Ass
― Cupid and Psyche and Other Tales from the Golden Ass
“What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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